Top - programming language researchers

The following is list of researchers of programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas.

• Dr. Paul Abrahams, former president of ACM, developer of SPLASH systems programming language
• John Backus, leader of the team that developed FORTRAN, developer of BNF
• Friedrich L. Bauer, co-designer of ALGOL
• Walter Bright, designer of D.
• Ole-Johan Dahl, co-inventor of Simula.
• Brendan Eich, designer of JavaScript.
• James Gosling, father of the Java programming language.
• Ralph Griswold, designer of SNOBOL, SL5, and Icon.
• Rich Hickey, designer of Clojure
• Grace Hopper, co-designer of COBOL
• Alan Kay, and Dan Ingalls, co-inventors of Smalltalk
• Anders Hejlsberg, original author of Turbo Pascal
• Yukihiro Matsumoto, designer of Ruby.
• John McCarthy, designer of LISP
• Kristen Nygaard, co-inventor of Simula
• John Ousterhout, designer of Tcl
• Dennis Ritchie, designer of C
• Guido van Rossum, designer of Python
• Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++
• Ken Thompson, designer of B
• Niklaus Wirth, designer of Pascal, Modula-2
• Larry Wall, designer of Perl
• Philip Wadler, designer of Haskell
• Martin Odersky, designer of Scala
• Roberto Ierusalimschy, designer of Lua
• Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-designer of Scheme and designer of Fortress
• Gerald Jay Sussman, co-designer of Scheme
• Alain Colmerauer, creator of Prolog
• Frank Mashraqi, creator of entity Universal language